Nomination for Trumbull County Courthouse

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) DEC 31 AND/ OR HISTORIC: 160 High Street, N.W. 11 - J.

William Stanton (Check One) In Process - Preservation work - Transportation - Comments Commercial - Other (Specify) OWNER OF PROPERTY OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: 039 155 NAME LOCATION STATE ACCESSIBLE Site Religious CLASSIFICATION CATEGORY Warren Educational County Government District Restricted Military OWNERSHIP NATIONAL REGISTER Private Structure RECEIVED Being Considered Unoccupied Federal Private Residence STATUS Trumbull Museum CODE Yes: Park Ohio Both Scientific Entertainment Industrial Building COMMON: Agricultural Trumbull County Courthouse CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Public STREET AND NUMBER: Board of Trumbull County Commissioners Public Acquisition: Trumbull County Courthouse - Recorders Office REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ENTRY DATE TO THE PUBLIC FOR NPS USE ONLY CITY OR TOWN: PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Object DESCRIPTION [x Excellent - Deteriorated - Unexposed - Unaltered X Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

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The north and south facades of this three-story-plus-attic, rectangular centrally placed, recessed behind an arcaded, 1-1/2 story opening. Roman numerals MDCCCXCV on the north side, and the words "Erected 1895" the roofline, and are flanked with carved stone turrets. carved, stone turrets. In the center of the gable roof is a large, round tower. Above the shaped tile roof is capped by a columned, round cupola. of Common Pleas, where court has been held since the building's opening. Also intact is the original cast iron elevator, still in operation. At CONDITION chain. Ruins structure of massive stone blocks are nearly identical.The entrance is of Warren. replaced with aluminum sash.There are belt courses between the floors.

has four clock faces each placed under a triangular pediment.The dome- The center bay and the flanking semi-circular bays have a continuous side of the center entrance are 3-1/2 story, semi-circular bays.These base of the tower are two tiers of arcaded windows.The last stage Interior:The vestibles have worn sandstone floors leading to the main statue of Justice at each peak.These end gables are also flanked with completed in 1897,was designed by the architectural firm of Labelle and serve as a wainscot and are enhanced by carved woodwork.The ceilings on each floor are gold and white with hanging fixures suspended by gilded Windows on all facades are symmetrically placed- flat arched on the first Good two floors and round arched on the third.All the windows have been (Check One) The east and west gable ends have a three-part window in the gable anda - Moved cost was $194,569.

Built of locally quarried sandstone, it stands in the Above this is a large, arched window. A steep gable rises above the center of Courthouse Park in the central business district of the city roofline. There is a three part window in the gable and a statue of second floor are offices and judge's chambers.Decorative marble slabs Justice at its peak.Carved stone turrets flank the gable.To either bays have conical roofs and small rectangular windows in the upper 1/2 story Fair Projecting bays are placed toward both ends of the on the south side. Pre-Columbian / - 20th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) - Political ] Religion/Phi- ] Science ] Social/Human- - Transportation DEC31 1974 NATIONAL 1895 losophy Architecture Conservation Engineering Commerce Communications Aboriginal Theater Industry Prehistoric REGISTER

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SIGNIFICANCE Literature Agriculture Music RECEIVED itarian Mahoning and Portage counties. Urban Planning Sculpture Invention Military 1836 it was in such need of extensive repairs that it was decided to Education Landscape Work was started on the present courthouse in 1895.The historic For five years elections were swayed by the issue.A law suit followed former county courthouses built in 1815 and 1854.Warren was chosen and a landmark of the entire Mahoning Valley.The towering seat of documents, deeds and atlases were rescued. and the result was in favor of Warren, Ohio as the county seat. 25,1800.At this time the county also encompassed the present In 1804 a fight to have the county seat moved to Youngstown ensued. The first courthouse on the present site was completed in 1815.By The present Trumbull County Courthouse is built on the site of two STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

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Trumbull County Courthouse isa dominant feature of downtown Warren but it was destroyed by a disastrous fire in 1895.Most of the old as the county seat of Trumbull County on July 10,1800,by Governor Art Other (Specify) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Trumbull County's judiciary is a fine example of Romanesque revival

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Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Tribune Chonicle, Warren, Ohio, Sept. 15, 1968. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: FORM PREPARED BY STREET AND NUMBER: 160 High Street, N.W. CITY OR TOWN: NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- I hereby certify that this property is included in the tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. The recommended Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation DEC 3 1 1974 GPO 931-894 Seconds Warren Degrees one 1973 Local Minutes Name County, Ohio.

DATE LATITUDE ORGANIZATION STATE LONGITUDE 039 ATTEST: CORNER Ohio CODE Degrees Minutes Seconds National Trumbull County Planning Commission Trumbull County Planning Commission, Historical Establishment of Trumbull Goeldner, Paul, A List of Nineteenth Century Courthouses in the Midwest. National Register. Anthony, D. and Hawkins, Wm. R.,"History of Trumbull County Courthouse" T2. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION NAME AND TITLE: OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES Press of Case-Western Reserve University. 1971. p. level of significance of this nomination is: 1968-1969 survey. CONTROL REVIEW ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN DEC 3 1 1974 INT: 1538-73 Entered KEEPER ARCHEOLOGIST Send-back National Register Write-up WORKING NUMBER MAPS HISTORIAN TECH REVIEW REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Federal Register entry BRANCH CHIEF Re-submit /2.31.74 Accept 2.12.

74.23 4 Photos - ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN OTHER KEEPER Inventory TECHNICAL HAER ARCHEOLOGIST Maps CONTROL Re-submit Send-back HISTORIAN Review National Register Write-up State Federal Register Entry Working Number 2.12. 74.234 BRANCH CHIEF Trumbull 3-4-15 INT: 2106 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 7 Entered UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FORM 10-301 A 1. NAME AND/OR HISTORIC DEC 3 1 1974 STREET AND NUMBER PHOTO REFERENCE NEGATIVE FILED AT July 1973 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. 1 2 1974 View of south (front), looking north. GPO 932-009 TOWN Department DATE COUNTY Warren COMMON Ohio STATE REGISTE 2.LOCATION NATIONAL Trumbull County Courthouse Trumbull County Sheriff's PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM 160 High Street, N.W.

PHOTO CREDIT (Type all entries - attach to or en close with photograph) NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES (6/72) NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) Trumbull RECEIVED UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (Type all entries -attach to or en close with photograph) AND/OR HISTORIC NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) DEC 3 1 1974 2. LOCATION STREET AND NUMBER 3. PHOTO REFERENCE NEGATIVE FILED AT July 1973 Office 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. FEB 1 2 1974 GPO 932-009 TOWN Warren Trumbull DATE COMMON Ohio STATE NAME NATIONAL Trumbull County Courthouse COUNTY Trumbull County Sheriff's PHOTO CREDIT PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES View of rear facade tower & spires, facing south. (6/72) 160 High Street, N.W.

PROPERTY OF THE NATOMAL REGISTER SOUTH REGISTE RECEIVED County, State X Photographs (missing #2) 74001637 Missing Core Documentation Ohio Property Name Trumbull County, The following Core Documentation is missing from this entry: Reference Number Trumbull County Courthouse Nomination Form USGS Map 80° 49' 10* LONGITUDE WARREN QUADRANGLE LATITUDE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES TRUMBULL COUNTY COURT HOUSE STATE OF OHIO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WARREN, OHIO 41°14'12 DEC 3 1 1974 Hon. John E. Glenn, Jr. Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. Regional Director, Midwest Region Location STATE Name Fulton County Also Notified ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Trumbull County Courthouse Date Entered Delta Vieinity Winameg Mounds Trunbull County Bon. Delbert L. Latta Hon. J. Willien Stanton Interstste f7l et 17tb Avenue CHTO